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Judgments on History and Historians

work by Burckhardt

Also known as: “Historische Fragmente”

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discussed in biography

In Jacob Burckhardt: Works of Jacob Burckhardt
… (“Historical Fragments,” 1929 in Gesamtausgabe; Judgments on History and Historians, 1958) selects highlights from his lecture manuscripts and demonstrates impressively Burckhardt’s gift for visualizing history as a whole. Both books contain passages that can be interpreted as prophetic visions of the violent totalitarian states of the 20th century; but more…
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